Author and publisher Anne C. Petty (b.Margaret Anne Cotton, 1945) died on July 21 from cancer. In 1984, she published One Ring to Bind Them: Tolkien’s Mythology and went on to publish Tolkien in the Land of Heroes: Discovering the Human Spirit and Dragons of Fantasy: Scaly Villains & Heroes of Modern Fantasy Literature. She wrote the dark fantasy novel The Cornerstone as well as other books and was the founder and editor of Kitsune Books.